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Into the Brexit endgameCoping with a 1oo-year-life societyAmerica's latest tax boondoggle
China's pian for stimulusNOVEMBER 17TH-23RD 2018
Contents The Economist November rzth 2018
On thecover
To rebuild public faith inmarkets, resto re competition:leader, page 11. Across theWest powerful, profitablefirms are becoming even morepowerful and profitable. Seeour special report, afterpage 42. Technology haseroded union power.Harnessing it may helporganised labour to stage arevival, page 20
• Into the Brexit endgame HowParliament should weigh up theBrexit deal: leader, page 12. Thechances of approvallook small,page 29. The case for havinganother vote on Brexit is gainingstrength: Bagehot, page 32
• Coping with a 100-year-lifesociety Shinzo Abe must bebolder if a fast-ageingJapan is tostay solvent: leader, page 14.The prime minister outlines hisplans, page 46
• America's latest taxboondoggle A scheme to drawcapital to deprived areas looksmore like a massive giveaway:leader, pog« 14.Superstar citiessweep ali before them. How canthe understudies get a luckybreak? Free exchange, page 68
• China's pian for stimulusThescale of debt limits the country'soptions today, page 62
The world this week8 A round-up of political
and business news
Leaders11 Competition
The next capitalistrevolution
12 Britain and the EUInto the endgame
14 japanese demographyCoping with theioo-year-life society
14 Opportunity zonesOh, the places you'll grow
16 Ed-techClick to download teacher
Letters18 On Australia, shipping,
aliens, Napoleon,metaphors
Briefing20 Trade unions and
technologyWorkers of the world,logon!
Special report:CompetitionTrustbusting in the21St centuryAfter page 42
oCharlemagne Europe'spopulist wave is stirringup tensions betweennational minorities andtheir neighbours, page 28
Europe25 Macron and Europe26 Migrants and politics
inSweden27 EU budget rules and Italy28 Charlemagne Resurgent
regionalism
Britain29 At last, a Brexit deal32 Bagehot The case for a
second referendum
Middle East &Africa33 An Israeli election looms34 Plastic surgery in Lebanon34 Struggling Dubai35 Nigeria's mysterious Shias36 Looking back in the
Gambia36 The economics of
chocolate
United States37 Fire in California38 Water in California39 The newattorney-general40 Florida recounts41 Opportunity zones42 Lexington Adam Schiff .
The Americas43 Gun control in Canada44 Corruption in Colombia44 culling green iguanas45 Bello A fight to spend
public money better
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6 Contents The Economist November rzth 2018
Asia46 Ageing in japan47 Sri Lanka's chaotic
politics48 [ihadists in Indonesia48 India's nuclear subs49 Banyan Renaming India50 Piji's rival strongmen50 Imelda Marcos is
convicted
China51 World-class universities52 Against political vetting53 Chaguan Dreaming of
online fame
International54 How technology can
improve education inpoor countries
Business56 The backlash against
chemicals57 Bartleby Nokia's saga58 MTN's trouble spots59 juuì and the FDA59 Indian supermarkets60 CP Group's winning
business model61 Schumpeter China v
America
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Finance &economics62 China plans its stimulus63 Buttonwood America
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talk trade65 Financial inclusion66 The Philippine economy67 Stock exchanges turn to
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Obituary82 Ruth Gates, champion of corals
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Science &technology70 Redefining the kilogram71 Responsibility for climate
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Books& arts74 Austria's history wars75 Michelle Obama's memoir76 Rediscovering Lucia Berlin76 Warhol's prophetic art77 johnson Translating in a
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